13 Bits Of Trivia For Slow Conversations
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Silence. Cold, dead silence. It is the worst thing to have happen at a party, on a date, on a date with your parents, on a date with your date's parents, and anything else date-related.
Finding something to break that silence can be stressful. You don't want to talk too much about yourself because they'll think you're being egotistical. Plus, you know, you already have so many stories. You'll run out of them quickly because after a time, you cannot be that interesting. Unless you're Nicolas Cage or like a party clown for politicians' kid's parties. But you're neither of those.
You don't want to ask too much of the other people either. They also only have so many stories. They also might be boring. And what's worse is that they'll think they're more interesting than you are because they had something to talk about and you didn't.
Don't let them win. Here is some trivia to save you (socially).
![When Leslie Nielsen died, an obituary for his character was published. It was for Enrico Palazzo, who Nielsen played in The Naked Gun. The obit said he died at a hospital, a large building with patients, near his home. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/8/803528.jpg)
![The chief of MI6 said that James Bond could never get hired by the agency. An MI6 officer has to have a high degree of emotional intelligence, values teamwork and always has respect for the law - - unlike Mr Bond. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/2/803522.jpg)
![The '70s TV show The Six Million Dollar Man accidentally discovered a corpse. THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN When a camera crew came to an amusement park and tried to move a hanging man prop, the arm came off - the prop was a real body. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/7/803517.jpg)
![The US Air Force got adjustable seats and equipment thanks to one guy. His job was to calculate average pilot dimensions, but soon figured out that equipment designed for an average pilot would fit no current pilot. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/4/803524.jpg)
![In the 1970s, the Atomic Energy Commission got a patent for nuclear drills. Specifically, a machine that can drill tunnels by melting, powered by a source electrical or nuclear but for deep drilling is preferably a nuclear reactor. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/5/803525.jpg)
![In 2000, Microsoft had to buy the domain Windows2000.com from some rando. Microsoft Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft (R) Windows Versione 5.0 (Build 2195: Service Pack 4) Copyright (C) 1981-1999 Microsoft Corp. Не was called Bob, and Microsoft luckily owned Bob.com, so he got that domain plus unspecified other considerations from Microsoft. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/8/803518.jpg)
![In 1976, there was a massive campaign to elect Nobody for President. There were rallies for Nobody from Los Angeles to New York City, with slogans like Nobody will end the war and Nobody loves the poor. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/9/803519.jpg)
![In Baltimore, they whipped people publicly (but only wife-beaters) until 1938. The last man whipped in Baltimore City Jail was flogged incredibly hard with a cat o'nine tails (the thing in the photo above) 20 times, then taken to the infirmary. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/0/803520.jpg)
![There are fully functioning oil wells hidden throughout Los Angeles. For example, one structure that looks like a windowless office building in the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood actually contains 52 oil and gas wells. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/6/803526.jpg)
![Beauty company Revlon tried to get a quiz show participant disqualified in 1950. 3 amVISIO tanVinvo Television The problem was that she wasn't wearing makeup on TV - so she got hit with harder and harder questions, but ended up winning anyway. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/1/803521.jpg)
![In a 2020 game, they played Beat It when Reese McGuire stepped up to the plate. That might not sound special - but it turns out that McGuire, a Blue Jays catcher, was caught masturbating in his car earlier that year. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/3/803523.jpg)
![In 2019, a porn company submitted a $10 million bid to name an NBA stadium. DE MAI PART CHAMPION NS! 05 i 06 CHAMPIONS MICCOSUKER - - - OPPENSIVE STATS BangBros tried to get a Miami stadium named the BangBros Center or, uh, BBC. They even created a website just for that bid. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/7/803527.jpg)
![In 1955, Hugh Hefner published a story about an extremely homosexual world. In it, gay people oppressed straights - the story was super controversial, but Hef defended it by saying that, if that's wrong, so is the reverse. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/6/803516.jpg)